PR Number: R2301110204
Award Number: P11AT10843 SUU-35
Park/NPS Unit: Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument
Title of Project: Herbarium Imaging Project 5
Administered through the:
Colorado Plateau Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Cooperative Agreement Number H1200-09-0005
Desert Southwest Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Cooperative Agreement Number H1200-10-0001
Rocky Mountains Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Unit Cooperative Agreement Number H1200-09-0004
CESU Partner: Southern Utah University
Project Contacts
Principal Investigator:
Terri J. Hildebrand, Assistant Professor
Department of Biology, College of Science and Engineering
Southern Utah University
351 West University Boulevard
Cedar City, UT 84720
Telephone: 435.586.7943
Fax: 435-865-8605
hildebrand@suu.edu
Co-Investigator (if appropriate): N/A
Researcher (if appropriate): N/A
Partner Administrative Contact: Douglas Hawks, Interim Director of Sponsored Research and Grants, Southern Utah University, 351 West University
Boulevard, Cedar City, UT; 84720; 435.865.8175; douglashawks@suu.edu
NPS Certified ATR (ATR):
Ann Hitchcock
Senior Advisor for Scientific Collections
National Park Service
1849 C Street, NW (2301)
Washington, DC 20240-0001
202-354-2271
Fax 202-371-2422
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ann_hitchcock@nps.gov
NPS Technical Expert (if appropriate): N/A
Funding Information:
Amount Funded: $25,166
(including 17.5% for indirect costs)
NPS Account Numbers (amounts in parentheses): 2450-IYE
Project Dates:
Start Date: September 1, 2011
Any Other Product Milestone Dates you need to include: (full dates in project description)
End Date: February 28, 2014
PROJECT ABSTRACT:
This project involves collaboration between a Colorado Plateau CESU partner, Southern Utah University, and Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument
(PARA) to 1) capture digital images of PARA herbarium specimens, making park and partner herbaria information more useful and accessible to the public, and 2)
train students and park staff in herbarium imaging skills. The project supports the production of an estimated 1,000 high quality digitized color images of
herbarium specimens from PARA. Southern Utah University (SUU) and PARA will collaborate to complete the imaging and post the images on the Southwest
Environmental Network (SEINet). PARA also will post the images on the NPS Web Catalog. An SUU Service Learning Event— a Specimen Digital Imaging
Workshop—will be held during the course of this project. The workshop will provide SUU students as well as NPS staff instruction on herbarium specimen
handling and digitization and an opportunity to process PARA specimens.
This project is part of a larger NPS Herbarium Imaging Project (HIP) involving 21 NPS units and cooperating non-NPS herbaria that manage park specimens and
participate in a consortium of Southwest herbaria to make herbarium data and images available on SEINet (Southwestern Environmental Information Network) at
http://swbiodiversity.org/seinet/index.php. The project will provide global access to specimens in the PARA herbarium, integrate these data and images with data
and images from Southern Utah University and 25 other federal, state, local, tribal, foreign governmental and non-governmental herbaria, as well as the 20 other
participating parks.
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